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codehausss's avatar
codehausss
Contributor
10 years ago

How to read and use SoapUI API for non Dev people?

Hello,   i don't have any background in development especially in java. I would like to learn how to read and use SoapUI API from SoapUI API docs (http://www.soapui.org/apidocs/index.html?overview...
  • nmrao's avatar
    nmrao
    10 years ago

    Context is defined at project, test suite, and test case levels. So object can vary depending upon where it is being accessed. And similarly TestRunner.

    To your question, both are not same, testRunner is member variable of context object. Applies to all levels.

codehausss's avatar
codehausss
Contributor
10 years ago

Hi Rupert, nmrao

many thanks for your reply, also watching the youtube vid.

actually my biggest confusion is related with the path, class and available method.

Like in above youtube vid for 2nd webinar, they write

println workspace

.
I am trying the same syntax in groovy test step and got error no such property workspace for class

i know in teststep groovy there is variable log, context, testRunner,
still i don't know the method i can use for each of them

i am trying

log.info context.metaClass.methods*.name


got error can not get property methods

i am trying

log.info testRunner.metaClass.methods*.name


got below result

[equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait, cancel, fail, getLog, getReason, getRunContext, getStartTime, getStatus, getTestRunnable, getTimeTaken, isRunning, setRunContext, start, waitUntilFinished, getResults, getRunContext, getTestCase, gotoStep, gotoStepByName, runTestStep, runTestStepByName, setMockRunContext]



still i am confuse, usually when i am googling some script, people write like this

testRunner.testCase.testSuite...



from above metaClass result i can't find after testRunner i can write testRunner.testCase.
how does people know about this?

  • nmrao's avatar
    nmrao
    Champion Level 3
    10 years ago

    In the video, it is explained how one can explore the soapUI API.

     

    Below is groovy script test step.

    Selection_253.png

     

    If you notice above, below variables are accessible:

    log, context, testRunner.

     

    Now, if you want to know details about testRunner variable, then just have the following statement in the groovy step and execute it, so that you would know what is the type of this variable

     

     

    log.info testRunner

    You may see below output

     

     

     

    Sun Nov 08 00:10:13 IST 2015:INFO:com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.panels.support.MockTestRunner@43810d51

    Now open the class MockTestRunner in soapui's api docs where you can see the allowed methods on testRunner say getTestCase().

     

    As you mentioned, testRunner.testCase and testRunner.getTestCase() are same. testRunner.testCase is groovified version(ignores explict get and paranthesis). Other one is java way.

     

    So, like above, you can find any object's class and look into api docs to get the methods.

     

    And similarly, if you see the project load script, test suite setup, teardown and test case setup and teardown (all of them or groovy type ) different variables available and are mentioned like how we see for groovy step.

    • codehausss's avatar
      codehausss
      Contributor
      10 years ago

      Thanks nmrao, very clear explanation, i am started to understand how to read the API document.

       

      would like to ask you agan:

       

      1. Only "get" followed by "parantheses" i can ommit from method name, is it correct?
      2. I am able to access another teststep inside another test suite using
        log.info testRunner.testCase.testSuite.project.workspace.getProjectByName("myProject").testSuites["yourTestSuite"].testCases["TestCase 1"].testSteps["delete"].testRequest.responseContentAsXml
        is there any possibility to shortened above script?
      3. I am able to run another teststep inside another test suite using
        log.info testRunner.testCase.testSuite.project.workspace.getProjectByName("myProject").testSuites["yourTestSuite"].testCases["TestCase 1"].testSteps["delete"].run(testRunner, context)
        but i can not understand what is the meaning from (TestCaseRunner runner, TestCaseRunContext runContext) inside run method.
        What is the function of testRunner and context inside this method?

       

      regards,

       

      • nmrao's avatar
        nmrao
        Champion Level 3
        10 years ago

        #1. Yes.

        Like, context.testCase.name and context.getTestCase().getName() are same and here there are no arguments involved.

         

        Similarly set also, however, it mostly may contain some argument.

         

        How to set a test case property

         

        But it will be little different if there are arguments to be passed for either set and get methods.

         

         

        context.testCase.setPropertyValue('PROPERTY_NAME','PROPERTY_VALUE')

        Can also be expressed as

         

         

         

        context.testCase.properties['PROPERTY_NAME'].value = 'PROPERTY_VALUE'

         

         

        How to get a test case property

         

         

        context.testCase.getPropertyValue('PROPERTY_NAME')

        or

         

         

         

        context.testCase.properties['PROPERTY_NAME'].value

        At least, above are some variants of set / and get methods while using groovified.

         

         

        2. Gald know that.

         

        If you want to access artifacts from other test suite, one must at least have project object(by accessing it successive parents). Here, you went one level ahead i.e., workspace which is not required.

         

        Get the project object :

        def currentProject = context.testCase.testSuite.project

         

        Then use currentProject later for all references if you dont want to use it long.

        currentProject.testSuites["yourTestSuite"].testCases["TestCase 1"].testSteps["delete"].testRequest.responseContentAsXml

         

        #3 one is also same as above.

         

    • infomaven's avatar
      infomaven
      Occasional Contributor
      8 months ago

      This breakdown and explanation was very helpful.